Customer Reviews

Bar Harbor All Natural Herring with Cabarnet Wine Sauce, 6.7-Ounce Cans (Pack of 12)

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Excellent herring, very soft and flaky, not like other canned fish, nice sauce, not at all over powering.

When I was growing up, medium-sized bottles of herring in sour cream were a staple. I was was aware of herring in wine sauce....but my parents never bought it. I have searched for herring in sour cream here on Amazon, to no success as yet. However, I DID find these BAR HARBOR WILD HERRING FILLETS IN CABERNET WINE SAUCE here on Amazon, and decided to try them.

I never knew that herring was such a dry fish! The wine sauce inside the can is plentiful -- but it still doesn't take away all of the dryness. There is a goodly amount of wine sauce -- but not so much that it will spill out of the can when opened. If you are careful opening the can, spilling of the wine sauce IS preventable. (It's a little difficult for me, at least, to open the can by the pull-tab. So far, I have had four of the twelve cans in the shipment -- and had to use a can-opener to open each one.)

The good news about the sauce, aside from it's delicious taste, is that it has enough time, in the the can, to permeate the fish, with some of the sauce still left over. As I have mentioned, the sauce doesn't take away ALL the dryness -- but it does take a bit away, and so the over-abundance of wine sauce IS a good idea. A doubly-good idea, I think, is to DRAIN the sauce which has not permeated the fish, (before eating the fish), into a small container, and keep it in the refrigerator. Then, you can use it for various other things -- such as adding it to tuna fish, as I have done. Then, the tuna becomes tastier, and you can leave out the mayonnaise, (which is mostly oil anyway), and get a richer tuna flavour, possibly with fewer calories!

These "Bar Harbor Herring Filets in Cabernet Wine Sauce" have the OU stamp of approval from the Orthodox (Jewish) Union, so preumably the cabernet wine, (listed in the next-to-the-last position in the ingredients), is KOSHER caberbet wine -- although the word "kosher" is not found in front of this ingredient.

This product is "sustainably harvested from the clear cold waters of the Gulf of Maine". It is also stated that it is a "Product of Canada". On the back of the cardboard sleeve encasing each tin, it is stated: "Produced in Canada, for Bar Harbor Foods, Whiting Maine, 04691 USA....." This may confuse some people, (it confuses me a lot)...but I prefer to consider it a happy product, jointly produced by two of the greatest countries in the world! Whatever you may think of my opinion, you must admit that it's nice to find a product produced ANYWHERE else than in China, these days!

Eating four cans of these herring fillets, (6.7 ounces, 190 grams each), in two days,says I like them -- and I do. They even have a

slight, very tasty smoky flavour -- without any liquid smoke listed amongst the ingredients! (As liquid smoke -- along with, (darn!), so many other things that taste SO good -- is rumoured to be cancer-causing, this is certainly a good thing!) But the fish is, as I have said, semi-dry....in spite of the wine sauce in which the fish comes, and in which it is saturated. These fillets in cabernet wine sauce ARE delicious -- but I do wish I could also find herring fillets in sour cream, that I grew up with. A different flavour, and not, perhaps to everyone's taste -- but at least herring fillets in sour cream are NOT at all dry.

And not only do we love it, but our customers love it too!

Amazon, please keep selling it!

Yum!! the sauce on this herring is so savory you will want to drink it right out of the tin and the fish it self is the perfect texture firm flaky and succulent. My local Market caries it for almost double the Amazon Price and I was happy to pay it... Go figure.....

Read the fine print on the back label. Deceptive! Not a product of Maine or Bar Harbor, but "Produced in Canada for Bar Harbor Foods."

This is a decent can of herring although not my favorite. I found the herring a little on the soft side but still enjoy them. Got them on sale and the price was better than I could find anywhere else but I did have to buy 12 cans.